The Raikage and his party for their part ignored the people's stares and just continued on until they reached the Council room door, where the two STORMS teams along with most of the Konoha Eleven and other Konoha Ninja's stayed outside the Council room door. While The Raikage and the others, entered the Council room, where the remainder of the Konoha Council were waiting for them.
When The Raikage entered the Council room he took a seat that was placed for him facing the Tsunade, the Council and Jiraiya who stood behind Tsunade. When The Raikage took his seat Yugito, Bee, Zhuge Liang, Mitsuhide, Saiyuri stood behind their Kage.
"Now that The Raikage and his delegation have arrived we shall began the talks for a possible Alliance betw-", spoke Tsunade before The Raikage spoke up and interrupted her.
"Forgive my interruption Hokage-san, but if I may, I would like to say something before the talks can begin", spoke The Raikage.
Naturally Tsunade had be taken off guard by The Raikage interruption, but quickly regained herself and allowed The Raikage to speak, which The Raikage nodded his thanks to her.
"Honoured Hokage and Members of the Konoha Council as all of you are well aware nearly twenties years ago, my village orchestrated a plot to kidnap Lady Hinata of the Hyūga Clan when she was only three years old. Where they had planned to bring Lady Hinata back to Kumo and use her to found a Hyūga Clan in Kumo, and use the Hyūga Clan's Byakugan to strengthen Kumo and as you all know the plan failed", spoke The Raikage.
When The Raikage said this, Hinata's stomach turned slightly as she did not like remembering that night, since she had come very close to becoming a human breeding machine for Kumo, which made her sick to her stomach at the very thought of it. Quickly forcing the memory away Hinata focused on what The Raikage was saying.
"This resulted in the death of the Head Ninja, who was sent to Konoha and had been the one who attempted to kidnap Lady Hinata. When this happened my predecessor the Yondaime Raikage further shamed himself and our village by demanding the head of Hyūga Hiashi as compensation, or risk breaking the peace treaty and start a War between Kumo and Konoha. This in turn resulted in the death of Hyūga Hiashi younger brother Hyūga Hizashi who nobly gave up his life to keep the peace and save lives by acting as his brother's body double", said The Raikage sadly. Where he then looked over to Hinata, she lowered her head at the loss of her Uncle which was why she and Neji had such a strong dislike and distrust of Kumo.
"And although I have apologised on behalf of my village to Lady Hinata and her cousin Hyūga Neji for the regrettable incident, that my village and my predecessor the Yondaime Raikage caused. For although I greatly respect and admire The Yondaime Raikage, for not only was he a powerful and Great Kage who loved his village and did whatever was necessary to protect Kumo and its people, I do not agree with some of the beliefs he had, nor some of the actions he took during his reign as The Yondaime Raikage. Hence I still feel I must apologise again and try and at lest make amends. Hence I present these tokens to Lady Hinata and her Clan in the hope of making amends for the mistakes of my village and my predecessor", spoke The Raikage. As he then signalled to Yugito, who took out two storage scrolls from her pouch and went over to Hinata and presented them to her at the Council table. "What are in the scrolls?" asked Hinata as she looked at the two scrolls the Yugito held out to her. "The first one has the body of your deceased Uncle HyūgaHizashi, so that your Clan can give him the proper hero's burial that her deserves, while the other is a large sum of money as compensation to your Clan. For the death of your Uncle and although it does not truly make amends for the loss of a member of you Clan it is the best that I can offer", spoke The Raikage. Hinata took the scroll and nodded her thanks to The Raikage and even gave him a small smile of thanks as well. Since she knew how much this would mean to Neji, where he could finally lay his father remains next to his mother's, allowing him to rest in peace and also finally put the event behind him.
Tsunade, Jiraiya and the Council, who had all been watching the event, could not help but be surprised with what The Raikage had done. Since this was the first time ever that a Kage had openly apologise for a deceitful event that their village had arrange, since most Kages would deny their villages involvement or fault and try and put the blame on the other. Much like what the Yondaime Raikage did when Kumo's sinister plan to capture Hinata was revealed. Tsunade and the others then took this as a good sign that New Kumo and the Heavenly Alliance would Ally themselves with Konoha and Suna against Orochimaru and his allies. After The Raikage had presented his peace offering to Hinata, Tsunade began the Alliance talks with The Raikage.
Unfortunately for Tsunade and the Council for the next two hours negotiations with The Raikage did not go as well as they had hoped. As The Raikage turned down any offer that Konoha made in return for the Alliance, as he stated that their offers of trades, goods and other things where not enough to justify getting his village as well as the other Shinobi villages of the Heavenly Alliance, involved in Konoha's and Suna's War against Orochimaru and his allies.
"…I'm sorry Hokage-san but that is simply not good enough as we can already get such things from several other member Nations of the Heavenly Alliance", said The Raikage after hearing Tsunade next offer.
"Then perhaps something else in exchange, such as our village, helping you to improve the curriculum of your Ninja Academy. So to improve the quality of your Shinobi's coming out of it, like we did with Sunagakure (Hidden Sand)", offered Yakumo.
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